VNC: Which desktop it displays
by Shane Presley
Hello,
I'm running VNC (pre-installed) with FC3. My client/view is on Windows 2000.
To configure VNC I modified /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
VNCSERVERS="1:root"
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 800x600"
And set a password. Then started the service "service vncserver start"
Starts up fine, and I can connect with my viewer to port 5901.
I'm new to Linux, so I'm confused about what desktop I am seeing. I
know with VNC server on a windows server, you get the display that the
local mouse/keyboard/monitor sees. There's only one desktop.
With FC3, I seem to be getting a new virtual desktop. I guess that
would be useful to run X applications. But is there a way to use VNC
to display the exact same thing that my locally attached
keyboard/mouse/monitor see? So if I change something remotely using
VNC, the local monitor also displays my changes. Just as if I was at
the console?
Thanks
Shane
17 years, 4 months
How to configure wireless network card
by Chethiya K Ranaweera
Hi,
I need to find out some info on wireless network cards in FC5. I want
to know where the wireless profiles are stored at and which files are
associated with my wireless network card. Thanks
--
CK
17 years, 4 months
Installing Python 2.4
by Mariano Draghi
In http://www.python.org/2.4/rpms.html there are RPM packages for FC3,
and a Yum repository provided by python.org (hey! so far FC3 is the only
distro with RPMs provided by python.org itself!)
I'd like to know if anybody have installed these packages, and if they
fit pleasently into FC3. As Fedora uses Python *heavely*, I don't want
to break anything.
So, it's safe to install this, or I'd be better waiting for an official
update? (assuming there are plans for such an update...)
TIA,
--
Mariano
17 years, 4 months
Can an LCD display be damaged by the wrong display output?
by Rick Bilonick
I have a Planar 20" PL2010M LCD monitor. I attached it to an Athlon 64
system running FC6 and using the nvidia proprietary driver (the latest
available). I tried (foolishly) the 1920x1080 interlaced output. The
monitor said it was outside the range. I reset to 1600x1200
noninterlaced and everything was fine. Later I connected a similar
computer (running FC5) that was displaying 1920x1080i (same nvidia card
- 5700LE or such). I noticed my mistake right away and I immediately
disconnected the monitor. Now, the PL2010M won't display anything. The
on light switches quickly from green to a constant yellow and displays
"no input signal" on the screen regardless of whether I'm using the
analog or digital input. I can no longer bring up the setup menu (e.g.,
to change from analog to digital) - no menu whatsoever. I called Planar
and they said it wouldn't damage the display but it seems like too much
of a coincidence.
Rick B.
17 years, 4 months
RE: FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP - DellPowerEdge 700
by Charles Butterfield
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Cornette [mailto:fc-cornette@insight.rr.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 8:46 PM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP -
> DellPowerEdge 700
>
> Charles Butterfield wrote:
> > After converting from FC5 to FC6 (clean install, NOT an upgrade), I
can
> > no longer get my X server to start.
> >
> > Target System:
> > - Machine: Dell PowerEdge 700
> > - Integrated Video: ATI Rage XL AGP
> >
> >
> > Snippets from key files:
> > /etc/sysconfig/hwconf -- includes the following:
> > class: VIDEO
> > bus: PCI
> > detached: 0
> > desc: "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL"
> > video.xdriver: ati
> > vendorId: 1002
> > deviceId: 4752
> > subVendorId: 1028
> > subDeviceId: 0167
> > pciType: 1
> > pcidom: 0
> > pcibus: 3
> > pcidev: e
> > pcifn:
> >
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf - includes the following:
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Videocard0"
> > Driver "ati"
> > EndSection
> >
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- end with:
> > (II) Primary Device is: ISA
> > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Videocard0".
> > (EE) No devices detected
> >
> > Any advice about what to do next would be appreciated.
> > - Charlie Butterfield
> >
>
> This sounds like a bug to me since it is a pci device in hwconfig and
if
> I am reading the snippets correctly, it is detected or the information
> is wrong in one or the other.
>
> Jim
> --
> You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your
part.
>
Yeah. I've been digging into it and discovered (via strace) that Xorg
is terminating its brute force pci scan of /proc/bus/pci/... a bit
before encountering my video device, which is the last device in the pci
space. scanpci and lspci show my video, but "Xorg -scanpci" doesn't
show the device.
I've submitted is as Bugzilla bug 214050 at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214050
Regards
-- Charlie
17 years, 4 months
Re: Issues w/ cups-lpd
by Jack Byers
Jack Byers byersj(a)hotmail.com
Philip Prindeville wrote:
Tim Waugh wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
......
>So what makes it raw? I was looking at the man pages for
>"lpoptions", and "lpadmin", "printers.conf" and "cups.conf",
>and didn't see anything... went onto the http://localhost:631/
>web page and didn't see anything...
>
>>I used the cups interface at localhost:631 to add a new printer and 'raw'
>>was one of the options. Unfortunately that hasn't got me anywhere with my
>>XP to FC4 printing problem, as the XP laptop is still sending the wrong
>>output :-(
>>Anne
----
something very close to the following should allow seamless printing
from winxp on your lan to printer on your fedora linux system
I got all of this from carla schroder book linux cookbook ch 14
that ch 14 at one point was a freebie on the net...
[root@bootp byers]# cat /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
#see carla schroder linux cookbook p 246-249
LogLevel info
Port 631
<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.2.*
</Location>
BrowseAddress 192.168.2.255
<Location /admin>
AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>
ServerName 192.168.2.8
[root@bootp byers]#
then
# /sbin/service cups restart
you shouldnt need to do anything re "raw"...
configure the printer on the cups interface localhost:631 on your linux
host
that cups restart will broadcast your printer to your lan
this is enough to serve all other linux clients on your lan, also any macs
on osx
from winxp box you need a couple extra steps
install TCP/IP Print services from xxxx/Other Network File and Print
Services
then "Add Printer wizard"
add the printer URI like this example:
http://192.168.2.8:631/printers/hp22ufc
that /printers/ is necessary, a convention used by cups
disclaimer: I know almost zilch about Windows
I did manage using these instructions
to get an old w98 box printing to my linux box
last march just in time to print out forms from my w98 TaxCut.
w98, for me at least, was a much tougher nut to crack;
I needed a lot of extra w98 steps.... which idont have available right now.
the xp instructions above are supposed to be all you need for xp.
hth
Jack
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17 years, 4 months
scim and transliteration
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I would like to know if there is an input method in scim which could
provide roman transliteration letters: I need vowel with macron,
consonnant with upper and underdot etc.
I have found "latin pre" and "latin post" virtual keyboard but they do
not provide all composed letters I need. Is it possible to add some
composed letters?
There is also an "unicode" and "utf-8" keyboard: is there a
configuration method of scim which could allow to define keyboard short
cuts giving the letter corresponding to a code; for example, I define
"Alt a" short cut with u+0101 and get a lowercase a-macron, "Alt A" will
give uppercase a macron, and so on.
Thank you for attention and (I hope) answer.
--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
17 years, 4 months
scim problem
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I installed scim to write some exotic scrips and it works quite good but
there is a problem that took me a long time to understand (and solve):
the assignation of the variable GTK_IM_MODULE to scim.
This is done when scim is running (for me at start time) and this makes
some applications crash: acroread, gxine (but not xine), realplayer....
I had to modify (or create) a script for these apps which unset first
this variable.
My question is: why scim cannot run smoothly with other applications?
I have another question, maybe off topics (but scim commes with fedora),
is there a keyboard in scim for transliteration of other scripts in
roman script? I mean a virtual keyboard which allow you to add letter
with diacritical marks (macron, underdots, overdots and so on.
Thank you.
--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris 5 - Paris
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
17 years, 4 months
Converting HTML to PDF Problem in FC5
by Hosea Phiri
I have a problem here, I want to convert html files to pdf file. In the past on RH the following steps used to work fine:
html2ps file.html > file.ps
ps2pdf file.ps > file.pdf
rm file.ps
However I have a problem with html2ps command which does not exist on FC5.
How can I have this command installed or is there a way of converting direct from html to pdf from command line?
Hosea
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17 years, 4 months
toshiba_acpi AWOL?
by Tim Jackson
In recent kernels (I'm running 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6) the toshiba_acpi
module seems to have gone walkabouts. Nothing I can see in the changelog.
Does anyone know if this is intentional? I have searched around a bit
and found some recent patches, but nothing indicating why it's not there.
Thanks
Tim
17 years, 4 months
